Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion
The final chapter explains Amplification, the tour de force rhetorical performance that draws on features from all the levels. Throughout, the explanations and the examples from actual texts provide evidence linking language choices to argument forms and persuasive purposes. Rhetorical insights into how language argues have survived for centuries.
Jargonbuster
Jargonbuster. Volodymyr Zelenskyy's rhetorical tour de force. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, taught the world a lesson in rhetoric, in the proper sense of 'the art of effective or persuasive speaking', in the month following the Russian invasion. His live appeals by video to the elected representatives of the European ...
rhetorical tour de force
exact ( 1 ) This is a rhetorical tour de force. 1. The New Yorker. Show more... similar ( 58 ) Yet, when he is in the grip of one of his rhetorical tours de force, he takes on the look of an elderly sage: his head turns toward the heavens, his arms stretch upward in supplicant gestures, his face twists into an attitude of ecstatic pain. 1.
PDF Adam Schiff's Speeches—a Rhetorical Tour de Force
of rhetoric as "the application of reason to the imagination for the better moving of the will." According to some, Schiff's speeches were a tour de force, oratorical gems—presentations that rhetorical critics will examine closely for years to come and portions of which might be used productively by public speaking teachers.
Lincoln at Gettysburg, by Garry Wills
(Their funeral orations, along with Everett's and Lincoln's, are reproduced in an appendix.) The point of the book (itself a rhetorical tour de force) is to demonstrate that Lincoln was a brilliant rhetorician. That point has been made before, but never with so much attention given to the structure of Lincoln's major speeches.
The Courage to See
That is what the fellow-traveling nobles whom Burke severely reprimands in his rhetorical tour de force cannot begin to recognize. Like literary intellectuals before and after them, they flirted with radical revolution "in the complete style of the Jacobins" and later the Bolsheviks. As Watson puts it, the true reformer has everything to ...
Figures of Repetition: Functions
Martin Luther King's speech "I have a dream", which exemplifies Rhetorical Staging (cf. Chap. 9), is a tour de force in its use of figures of repetition, both in terms of their frequency and in the way they intricately combine. This much-celebrated speech is famous for its line "I have a dream" and the series of sentences in which this line is repeated, but this is just one of many ...
'The Power of Speech / To Stir Men's Blood': The Language of ...
Indeed, his rhetorical tour de force turns the course not only of the action of the play, but of the tide of times. Effecting the shift of power from Brutus to Antony, it marks the ... The markedly rhetorical style has often been noted, and Dr. Johnson s opinion that "Shakespeare's adherence to . . . Roman manners [was} cold
Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion
The final chapter explains Amplification, the tour de force rhetorical performance that draws on features from all the levels. Throughout, the explanations and the examples from actual texts ...
Becoming a detour de force: De-hierarchizing directionality and
As a research ethic, a detour de force opposes a tour de force, which views a critic's inventions as the egocentric product of vertical excellence, geocentric mastery, and the telic exceptionalism of human agency. ... SXSW is a rhetorical force in its own right, one which embodies "the convergence of place, bodies, sounds, [tastes, smells ...
Romans 1:26-27 in Its Rhetorical Tradition
Jewett describes the whole of Romans 1:18-23 as a "rhetorical tour de force" (148). 5 "ἐπι contains a hostile element while πãσαν rules out any exceptions. To the intensity of the judgment corresponds the totality of the world which stands under it, so that the statement about Gentiles applies to the heathen nature of mankind ...
TOUR DE FORCE Definition & Meaning
Tour de force definition: an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius. See examples of TOUR DE FORCE used in a sentence.
Plato's Symposium: A Critical Guide
Francisco Gonzalez aims to rehabilitate Agathon's speech against the prevailing view that it is a merely rhetorical tour de force, lacking in philosophic depth. Acknowledging precedents for his enterprise in work by Michael Stokes and by David Sedley, he marshals an impressive battery of evidence to support the idea that Agathon himself, as a ...
Five of the Best Speeches and Writings by Martin Luther King
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68) is one of the great orators of the twentieth century. Several of his speeches have become part of the 'canon' of great oratory, and because he was delivering many of his speeches at landmark political events and in the era of television, we are lucky enough to hear him speak the words he wrote.
Rhetorical Approaches to the Study of Mathematical Practice
It argues that many of the seeds for contemporary study of rhetoric and mathematics emerge from Imre Lakatos's tour de force, Proofs and Refutations. There we find a rejection of mathematical formalism and the telos of absolute truth, an emphasis on the arts of mathematical practice, and a model of informal mathematics that positions ...
AP Assignments for The Grapes of Wrath
Rhetorical analysis promotes close reading, and the interchapters lend themselves well to such analysis. They are rich in imagery and figurative language, widely range in tone, and employ syntax to varied and dramatic effect. ... The interchapters represent a stylistic tour de force on Steinbeck's part, kind of the writerly equivalent of a ...
Emotive Language in Argumentation
The book is a logico-pragmatic-rhetorical tour de force exploring how emotive meanings are intertwined with definitions, with the dynamics of presupposition, and with implicitness in argumentation. A journey well worth taking for argumentation scholars and linguists interested in evaluative language.' ...
The Rhetorical Premiership: A New Perspective on Prime Ministerial
By contrast, not enough attention has been paid to the ways in which prime ministers use rhetoric, formally and informally, to maintain themselves in power and to achieve their policy aims. ... with the strange caucus of Africaner politicians who now control this vast country.' 56 In a rhetorical tour de force, ...
David McNally ' the French Revolution. As plebeian radicals, inspired
Reflections, unlike Malthus' Essay, is a rhetorical tour-de-force. Moreover, Burke's is in many respects the more intellectually consistent argument — a point to which I shall return. Yet if we are interested in the historical impact of certain discursive forms and traditions — if we care, in other words, about the
On Love: Jacques Lacan and Plato's Symposium
With this rhetorical tour de force, Plato manages to credit Socrates, through the mediation of Diotima (whose speech, just to further mix things up, is among other things described by Socrates as 'sophistic') his conception of love. This is of course nothing but a hypothesis, but one which, with the necessary precautions, may be of use to ...
A tour de force of Mexican rhetoricity and racialization
Lisa Flores ' book, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the " Illegal " Immigrant is a tour de force of Mexican/American history, rhetoricity, and racialization. Flores argues that racialization is rhetorical, which is to say performative, inter-sectional, and crafted in public discourse. Flores argues that racialization creates shared perceptions of Mexicans ...
A tour de force of Mexican rhetoricity and racialization
Lisa Flores' book, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the "Illegal" Immigrant is a tour de force of Mexican/American history, rhetoricity, and racialization. Flores argues...
The Declaration of Independence Founded a Theistic Republic
It is a masterful statement, a rhetorical tour de force, that makes the case for independence using a number of different arguments. It does not make the case for creating any particular kind of state or form of government except to insist that governments derive their "just powers from the consent of the governed." There is no implication ...
5 Reasons Why the 2024 Tour de France Will Rock
FLORENCE, Italy (Velo) — Tadej Pogačar and the Giro-Tour double. Mark Cavendish chasing the Eddy Merckx record. And Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel, and Primož Roglič all on a desperate race against time to hit Tour de France peak form.. What's not to love in the 2024 Tour de France? Anchored around an atypical course, one that finishes beyond the realm of greater Paris for the first ...
How Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Might Affect Europe's Economy
Economists in the United States know that Eras is an economic tour de force. As consumers splurged on concerts, meals, vacations and other recreational experiences they missed out on during ...
Spectre of far-Right politics hangs over Euro 2024
Tour de France Giro d'Italia Vuelta a Espana ... the second largest political force in the country after recent parliamentary elections. Elements of the party's rhetoric can be eye-watering ...
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The final chapter explains Amplification, the tour de force rhetorical performance that draws on features from all the levels. Throughout, the explanations and the examples from actual texts provide evidence linking language choices to argument forms and persuasive purposes. Rhetorical insights into how language argues have survived for centuries.
Jargonbuster. Volodymyr Zelenskyy's rhetorical tour de force. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, taught the world a lesson in rhetoric, in the proper sense of 'the art of effective or persuasive speaking', in the month following the Russian invasion. His live appeals by video to the elected representatives of the European ...
exact ( 1 ) This is a rhetorical tour de force. 1. The New Yorker. Show more... similar ( 58 ) Yet, when he is in the grip of one of his rhetorical tours de force, he takes on the look of an elderly sage: his head turns toward the heavens, his arms stretch upward in supplicant gestures, his face twists into an attitude of ecstatic pain. 1.
of rhetoric as "the application of reason to the imagination for the better moving of the will." According to some, Schiff's speeches were a tour de force, oratorical gems—presentations that rhetorical critics will examine closely for years to come and portions of which might be used productively by public speaking teachers.
(Their funeral orations, along with Everett's and Lincoln's, are reproduced in an appendix.) The point of the book (itself a rhetorical tour de force) is to demonstrate that Lincoln was a brilliant rhetorician. That point has been made before, but never with so much attention given to the structure of Lincoln's major speeches.
That is what the fellow-traveling nobles whom Burke severely reprimands in his rhetorical tour de force cannot begin to recognize. Like literary intellectuals before and after them, they flirted with radical revolution "in the complete style of the Jacobins" and later the Bolsheviks. As Watson puts it, the true reformer has everything to ...
Martin Luther King's speech "I have a dream", which exemplifies Rhetorical Staging (cf. Chap. 9), is a tour de force in its use of figures of repetition, both in terms of their frequency and in the way they intricately combine. This much-celebrated speech is famous for its line "I have a dream" and the series of sentences in which this line is repeated, but this is just one of many ...
Indeed, his rhetorical tour de force turns the course not only of the action of the play, but of the tide of times. Effecting the shift of power from Brutus to Antony, it marks the ... The markedly rhetorical style has often been noted, and Dr. Johnson s opinion that "Shakespeare's adherence to . . . Roman manners [was} cold
The final chapter explains Amplification, the tour de force rhetorical performance that draws on features from all the levels. Throughout, the explanations and the examples from actual texts ...
As a research ethic, a detour de force opposes a tour de force, which views a critic's inventions as the egocentric product of vertical excellence, geocentric mastery, and the telic exceptionalism of human agency. ... SXSW is a rhetorical force in its own right, one which embodies "the convergence of place, bodies, sounds, [tastes, smells ...
Jewett describes the whole of Romans 1:18-23 as a "rhetorical tour de force" (148). 5 "ἐπι contains a hostile element while πãσαν rules out any exceptions. To the intensity of the judgment corresponds the totality of the world which stands under it, so that the statement about Gentiles applies to the heathen nature of mankind ...
Tour de force definition: an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius. See examples of TOUR DE FORCE used in a sentence.
Francisco Gonzalez aims to rehabilitate Agathon's speech against the prevailing view that it is a merely rhetorical tour de force, lacking in philosophic depth. Acknowledging precedents for his enterprise in work by Michael Stokes and by David Sedley, he marshals an impressive battery of evidence to support the idea that Agathon himself, as a ...
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68) is one of the great orators of the twentieth century. Several of his speeches have become part of the 'canon' of great oratory, and because he was delivering many of his speeches at landmark political events and in the era of television, we are lucky enough to hear him speak the words he wrote.
It argues that many of the seeds for contemporary study of rhetoric and mathematics emerge from Imre Lakatos's tour de force, Proofs and Refutations. There we find a rejection of mathematical formalism and the telos of absolute truth, an emphasis on the arts of mathematical practice, and a model of informal mathematics that positions ...
Rhetorical analysis promotes close reading, and the interchapters lend themselves well to such analysis. They are rich in imagery and figurative language, widely range in tone, and employ syntax to varied and dramatic effect. ... The interchapters represent a stylistic tour de force on Steinbeck's part, kind of the writerly equivalent of a ...
The book is a logico-pragmatic-rhetorical tour de force exploring how emotive meanings are intertwined with definitions, with the dynamics of presupposition, and with implicitness in argumentation. A journey well worth taking for argumentation scholars and linguists interested in evaluative language.' ...
By contrast, not enough attention has been paid to the ways in which prime ministers use rhetoric, formally and informally, to maintain themselves in power and to achieve their policy aims. ... with the strange caucus of Africaner politicians who now control this vast country.' 56 In a rhetorical tour de force, ...
Reflections, unlike Malthus' Essay, is a rhetorical tour-de-force. Moreover, Burke's is in many respects the more intellectually consistent argument — a point to which I shall return. Yet if we are interested in the historical impact of certain discursive forms and traditions — if we care, in other words, about the
With this rhetorical tour de force, Plato manages to credit Socrates, through the mediation of Diotima (whose speech, just to further mix things up, is among other things described by Socrates as 'sophistic') his conception of love. This is of course nothing but a hypothesis, but one which, with the necessary precautions, may be of use to ...
Lisa Flores ' book, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the " Illegal " Immigrant is a tour de force of Mexican/American history, rhetoricity, and racialization. Flores argues that racialization is rhetorical, which is to say performative, inter-sectional, and crafted in public discourse. Flores argues that racialization creates shared perceptions of Mexicans ...
Lisa Flores' book, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the "Illegal" Immigrant is a tour de force of Mexican/American history, rhetoricity, and racialization. Flores argues...
It is a masterful statement, a rhetorical tour de force, that makes the case for independence using a number of different arguments. It does not make the case for creating any particular kind of state or form of government except to insist that governments derive their "just powers from the consent of the governed." There is no implication ...
FLORENCE, Italy (Velo) — Tadej Pogačar and the Giro-Tour double. Mark Cavendish chasing the Eddy Merckx record. And Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel, and Primož Roglič all on a desperate race against time to hit Tour de France peak form.. What's not to love in the 2024 Tour de France? Anchored around an atypical course, one that finishes beyond the realm of greater Paris for the first ...
Economists in the United States know that Eras is an economic tour de force. As consumers splurged on concerts, meals, vacations and other recreational experiences they missed out on during ...
Tour de France Giro d'Italia Vuelta a Espana ... the second largest political force in the country after recent parliamentary elections. Elements of the party's rhetoric can be eye-watering ...